Just a quick note to let you know that City Nature Challenge 2017 is happening, April 14-18! And this year, instead of just the SF Bay Area vs. LA County, it's SF vs. LA vs. 14 other cities across the country!

We'd love to have your involvement again this year! Look for a journal post soon you'll be tagged in that will go over strategy for this year's City Nature Challenge - we'll lead some trips for the Bay Area iNatters to join us on, and we have places throughout the Bay Area in which we'd like to make sure someone (or maybe a group of iNatters!) goes and makes observations to help up our species numbers!

Competition is going to be fierce this year with so many cities joining in!

Just a quick note to let you know that City Nature Challenge 2017 is happening, April 14-18! And this year, instead of just the SF Bay Area vs. LA County, it's SF vs. LA vs. 14 other cities across the country!

We'd love to have your involvement again this year! Look for a journal post soon you'll be tagged in that will go over strategy for this year's City Nature Challenge - we'll lead some trips for the Bay Area iNatters to join us on, and we have places throughout the Bay Area in which we'd like to make sure someone (or maybe a group of iNatters!) goes and makes observations to help up our species numbers!

Competition is going to be fierce this year with so many cities joining in!

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San Francisco Bay Area: let's #BeatLA! The biodiversity challenge is on! We know how beautiful and full of nature the Bay Area is, from our city, county, state, and national parks, to the nature in our own backyards and sprouting in the cracks of the sidewalks. Help us document the Bay Area's biodiversity!

The challenge starts at 12 noon on Thursday, April 14, and runs until 12 noon on ...more ↓

San Francisco Bay Area: let's #BeatLA! The biodiversity challenge is on! We know how beautiful and full of nature the Bay Area is, from our city, county, state, and national parks, to the nature in our own backyards and sprouting in the cracks of the sidewalks. Help us document the Bay Area's biodiversity!

The challenge starts at 12 noon on Thursday, April 14, and runs until 12 noon on Thursday, April 21! Results will be announced on Earth Day, Friday April 22.

Join in an event!:
- Sign up for our McLaren Park bioblitz in San Francisco on Saturday, April 16, 10 am - 2 pm, where we'll all come together to document as many species as possible in the park! http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mclaren-park-bioblitz-2016 - Slide Ranch, along the Marin coast, is also hosting a bioblitz the afternoon of Saturday, April 16, 2:30 - 5 pm. Email admin@slideranch.org to RSVP - participation is free!
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What better way to help create a baseline of California biodiversity than to capitalize on the friendly rivalry between San Francisco and Los Angeles and engage in a biodiversity competition? Centered around National Citizen Science Day and Earth Day, the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are asking residents of and visitors to the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County to explore nature all around them and document the species they find using iNaturalist. At the end of the week, we’ll compare stats like total number of species found, total number of observations, and total number of observers to find out who comes out on top: Los Angeles or San Francisco!